This week’s Guild Checkpoint is near to me, because it is my own guild, The Old Timers Guild. This is one of the largest guilds we have had on Guild Checkpoint. That is not bragging, but fact. I have purposely wanted to spotlight the smaller, less know, and community focused guilds in SWTOR. This might appear a huge “steamrolling” guild, but from my experience it has a great community and is more like several smaller guilds all linked together. I know you all don’t want to just listen to me jibber-jabber, so let’s meet Kaeli, the Empire Chapter Officer in the Old Timers Guild. We will get her opinions and thoughts. So let’s set the nav coordinates and get ready for the Jump.

This week had several news worthy stories, some from developers, the community, oh and a HUGE Friday Update. Yes, the Smuggler progression video was just full of goodness. Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Facebook page has over 400,000 likes! The folks at Bioware released information concerning romance arcs to be added post-launch. Our UK friends will be enjoying GAMEfest, from the 16t-18th & SWTOR will be there! HoloNet Links is adding a new feature, Star Wars Music Video of the Week…I take requests. Okay, enough of me rambling on, let’s get into the HoloNet Links!

Kathy’s back from being out of town and we celebrate by having Roxanne compare things to Nazis and spread baseless rumors about who’s picking up the tab at the fansite cantina event. Speaking of cantinas, we hope actual social spaces like cantinas will replace fake social spaces like the mailbox in our Community Buzz discussion.

Fact or Fiction: Can you pick out the confirmed fact from the tall tales? This week’s host challenge involves crew skills, class balance, and PAX East.Continue reading »